Left Atrial Dysfunction in Patients With Patent Foramen Ovale and Atrial Septal Aneurysm. An Alternative Concurrent Mechanism for Arterial Embolism?

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 655-662

  Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a   Aggio, Silvio ^a   Cardaioli, Paolo ^a   Braggion, Gabriele ^a   Giordan, Massimo ^a   Dell'avvocata, Fabio ^a   Chinaglia, Mauro ^a   Rigatelli, Giorgio ^b   Roncon, Loris ^a   Chen, Jack P ^c  

^a ROVIGO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Legnago General Hospital   (Italy)

^c Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac anatomy; echocardiography; embolism; patent foramen ovale; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ATRIAL SEPTUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67650578428     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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